Tim Ransom
Table of Contents
1. About me
1.1. Present
I am currently a lecturer in the School of Computing while finishing my PhD in computer science education in Clemson's Engineering and Science Education department. I am advised by Dr. Matthew Boyer here at Clemson and am affiliated with Dr. James Huff's Beyond Professional Identity lab at the University of Georgia.
1.2. Future
Projected PhD completion date: May 2025
1.3. Background
I have a masters degree in computer science from Clemson University, and two bachelors from Appalachian State University in computer science and computational mathematics.
I have experience as a freelance research methodologist, data analyst, and education researcher consultant. Feel free to reach out!
2. Research Interests
My dissertation work is investigating the experiences of computer science undergraduate students developing their professional identities. What does it mean to them to become computer scientists?
"Side" projects include:
- natural language processing of social media
- ethics education in STEM
- developing interdisciplinary communites of practice
- interdisciplinary curriculum analysis
- computational thinking development
- technology in classrooms
3. Conference Presentations
- SSERC 2022
- Math and computer sicence Identity literature reviews
- XDBER 2022
- Topic modeling of online programming communites of practice
- SSERC 2023
- Communities of practice in interdisciplinary graduate departments
- ASEE SE 2023
- Community Cultural capitals of interdisciplinary graduate students
- ASEE 2024
- Ethical development of undergraduate chemistry students
4. Courses Taught
- Computing, Ethics, and Society
- Computational Thinking
5. Links
Email is the best way to get in contact with me:
tsranso at clemson.edu
But here are a few places that I exist digitally as well
6. CV
Pull my cv here:
7. Pictures
Just some photos I've taken that I think look nice
8. License
